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My last Vegas post is taking a while to write. So to tide you over, here’s some news and links.

Okay not food related, but interesting for travellers – Gary from Everything Everywhere, who has been travelling around the world since 2007, is coming to Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver in a couple of weeks or so. If you’re interested in meeting him, keep an eye on his website and twitter account.

A Canadian study has found that enhanced blueberry juice helped manage — and even prevent — obesity and diabetes in mice. Interesting, because I’ve had dietitians recommend avoiding juice and eating fruit instead, due to caloric intake from juice and the higher fibre content of fruit.

Okay I lied, one more thing. I feel the need to complain about Food Network Canada‘s website and advertising. We all know the new fall season of tv shows are coming. They’ve even been advertising them in their commercials, but did you notice that they don’t give any dates? And they don’t have a feature on their website saying when shows start either. When I asked their Twitter account about it, I got back a reply that I should look at their daily schedule. And then they offered to tell me personally if there were specific ones I wanted to know about. Great for me, but sucks for everyone else wondering about what’s going on. Did you know that Top Chef 6 starts on Sept 7? Well I didn’t either, until I scoured the schedule.

Also, I got tired waiting to find out if they were going to broadcast Top Chef Masters, so I recently started watching it online. Am half way through the episodes, and loving it.